Reader Seamus made the following comment today on the Now We’re All Mulsims post.

"…….all I am saying is that we would get really pissed of if some Islamic Imam would tell us how to live our lives. We get really wound up if someone even mentions the idea of Sharia Law in the West. Why should we attempt to enforce our rules on them and then get wound up when they do the same to us?"

On the face of it, I would agree. I’m a keep out of my yard – to each his own, kind of woman. Heck, I wish my government would spend the next two years doing nothing more than repealing laws and defunding at least a fourth of their useless departments that squat all over my backyard. I can’t follow my own natural inclinations on this issue though, call me a hypocrite if it pleases you, but for the sake of my children and theirs, I’m going to have loud opinions on how they’re conducting their day-to-day life.

I would like to ignore the problems in the rest of the world, it would be so easy to quietly turn a blind eye to the brutality of the Muslim world and blithely call it acceptable cultural differences, but I can’t because it affects my world. Madrassas that brainwash boys to hate, intolerant theocratic countries that demand ideological conformity or death, societies that mutilate and condemn women to lives of ignorant poverty with no more status than livestock, dictators that brutalize, starve and murder their citizens to maintain power and in the process create generations of dysfunctional sociopaths. These people have a meaningful bearing on my society and I’m not going to be quiet about their backward, nihilistic behaviour.

We absolutely should intervene in these countries to alter their mindsets and bury these horrific cultural practices six feet under as quickly as possible. I’m not a fan of NGO’s usually, but they are trying to bring a number of much needed reforms to the Islamic world; education to girls and women, trying to drastically reduce FGM, extinguish the practice of child sex slaves as a norm, raise the age of females eligible for marriage, offer alternative, real education for boys outside of the madrassas, building schools, medical facilities, and participatory mediation outside of Islamic courts. These people have been so isolated by their governments and religion that they need robust outside intervention to jumpstart much needed change. I very firmly believe that we won’t see an end to Islamic Terrorism until these societies embrace our fundamental belief in human rights and equality for all men.

If we meddle enough we may end up living in a world where the term Islamic Terrorism is an anachronism.  Watch this and tell me we shouldn’t try to insert our cultural ideals in the Middle East.

ATW readers may recall my outrage when James Baker and his cronies suggested that Iran could be a force for stability in the region. My view is that would only be possible in the same sense that Nazi Germany was a force for stability. Comes the news today that eight women and one man convicted of adultery are set to be stoned to death in Iran, according to activists and lawyers. Shadi Sadr, a lawyer and women’s rights activist, said the nine were convicted of adultery in separate cases in different Iranian cities. "Their verdicts are approved, and they may be executed at any time," she said, adding that trial protocol was not applied properly in the cases. Six of the nine were convicted based solely on judges’ decisions with no witnesses or the presence of their lawyers during their confessions, she said.

These stone age barbarians in Iran should NOT be pandered to in any regard. It is pathetic to see the West wrap itself up in endless knots as it tries to find reason where none exists. Iran is a theocratic malignancy and if we do not deal with it, then it will eventually deal with us. Given just how intolerant the Mullahs are to every form of modern liberalism, I would have thought we could all unite – right and left – and agree that Iran must be comprehensively dealt with  but no, most political "leaders" prefer to delude themselves and imagine that dialogue will solve the problem. Like these eight men and one woman, that pretence will not survive for long.

I was reading that there are now over 1000 laws in the UK that permit the State to enter your home. More than half of these have come into being since this Labour government – the most totalitarian we have ever seen – came to power just over 10 years ago.

Some of the lawful reasons now available for agencies of the State to enter your home include;

• Seize fridges without the correct energy rating (Energy Information Household Refrigerators and Freezers Regulations 2004).

• Check that accommodation given to asylum seekers is not being lived in by non-asylum seekers (Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

• Survey your home and garden to see if your hedge is too high (Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003).

It’s not 2008, it IS 1984 and Big Brother is not only watching you from CCTV’s dangled from every corner but he has the power to walk into your home. ALL these laws quoted above need to be repealed and the State told to STAY OUT of our business.

Doesn’t it make you PROUD to be British on a day when UK PM Gordon Brown declares he will hand over an additional $60m in financial aid to the Palestinians? These are the same Palestinians who danced with joy a few days ago at the news the child-killer Samir Kuntar had been released from captivity in a prisoners for corpses swap by Osloid Olmert. It seems to me that Brown is either a knave or a fool. If he believes that it is a lack of financial resources that causes Palestinian hatred, then he is a fool. If he knows this to be the case but still rewards the Gaza savages anyway, he is a knave. Which is it? I favour the latter explanantion.

The return of the Trade Union mafia becomes more apparant by the day. It is reported that Trade union leaders are ready to drop their support for Gordon Brown’s leadership if he refuses demands to relax the laws on strike action. The general secretary of one of Britain’s big three unions claimed to have held informal talks with the prime minister’s potential successors. “As they say in the movie, it’s not personal it’s just business,” said the union leader quoting The Godfather, the 1972 film about the mafia.

As I commented a few days ago, a weakened  Labour Prime Minister is an invitation for the Trade Unions to move in and seek a return to their "glory days" prior to Mrs Thatcher coming to power, the days when they crippled this country economically, the days when their barely disguised pro-communist anti-capitalism brought Britain to a halt. It took Lady Thatcher to bring the Unions to heel but now, under Labour, they are back and seeking to grab more power. I dont think Brown can refuse them since Labour is financially bust so my fear is that despite rhetorical rejection for public consumption, Government will actually seek to give them some of what they want and THAT will be bad for us all. 

Islam may yet defeat us in a way I had not anticipated. Take this odd story concerning Dr Stewart Drage, a senior member of the British Medical Association, a respected political negotiator who made decisions affecting thousands of doctors across the country. By tragic coincidence, through work, he found himself at the very centre of the devastating Islamic terrorist attack on London on July 7, 2005, one of the worst atrocities this country has ever seen.The blasts on the capital’s transport networks killed 52 people and shattered the lives of thousands more.

And for Dr Drage, a happily married father of three, it was also to prove an extraordinary and profound turning point. You see as a direct result of this he decided to take the plunge….and become a woman. He is now a she and is officially known as Dr Michelle Drage. He remains married. What can you say?

I don’t write on a personal level that often. I prefer to stick to politics. Tonight however I just feel like writing about my weekend. A slice in the life of the Troll if you will. An indulgence I ask of you and our host occasionally. Not that often, but just enough to remind myself and you that even us villains are just people with the same pain and joy as the rest of you.

To start with I got told this weekend that my aunt probably won’t make it through to Monday. She has Cancer and it’s in its final stages. She is the last of my mothers family that she has left. My father passed over twenty years ago, and her mother and father have gone since then. She is taking it hard, a lot harder than she is trying to let show. As her son all I can do is be there for her. It’s hard to feel powerless and still stand as we should.

That is my pain at this moment.

My joy comes in two sizes, ages 11 and 8. My daughters are my life’s blessing. We went to Dorney Park yesterday, we started in the water park. Four hours of waterslides and wave pools. The next seven hours were spent riding every ride we could squeeze in. My little one has grown quite brave and finally tall enough to go on any ride she wants.

Like her father she is getting an addiction to roller coasters, and Dorney has several. One of them is Steel Force the first roller coaster in the East to break the 200-foot barrier. With a 205-foot drop, two tunnels, steep banks and speeds reaching 75 miles per hour. One of the others was a wooden coaster Originally named "The Coaster," ThunderHawk debuted in Dorney Park in 1923 and was re-christened "ThunderHawk" prior to the 1989 season. Designed by Herbert Schmeck, this wooden roller coaster was manufactured and installed by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. The Thunderhawk roller coaster was originally constructed as an "out-and-back" roller coaster, but was modified into its present figure-eight pattern in 1930.

I spent the day watching them run from ride to ride laughing, while their mother and I enjoyed every minute of it. We ended this weekend tonight with a trip to the movies. We of course went to see Batman. Do yourself a favor and indulge in this film.

Some of you my know my feelings about the bat, if not you can read them here. As for this movie Heath Ledger brings the joker to life. Not in the buffoonish way like Ceaser Romero did, but as he is written in the dark graphic novels. The whole film is a treat. It captures the characters and offers a story that could be based in reality rather than comic books.

Not that in real life we could ever have a man running around in a costume saving us, but the story is no campy comic book tale of super villains and hero’s. Go enjoy.

Well that was my good and bad. The cycle of life.

The Troll

Written by the great Ray Davies. Sung by the excellentChrissie Hynde. Single produced by the superlative Nick Lowe. Stop your sobbing….

Did you see that all State school pupils are set to be taught Islamic traditions and values in compulsory citizenship lessons. The move  -  part of a package of initiatives announced by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears yesterday  -  is allegedly designed to curb extremism!!

No it’s not. It’s another example of how this lousy government prostrates itself  to the demands of Islam. It’s hard to know which of the Zanulabour stepford wives to loath the most, and even though I have a penchant for redheads, I think the revolting little Blears comes top of my list. Why the hell should OUR children be taught anything about Islam? If they want to enquire about this pathology sorry I mean faith, let them buy a book on it. Government has NO right to impose the malignancy of Islam on impressionable kids and parents should ensure that their children’s minds are not poluuted by exposure to this government sponsored advocacy of  Islam.